| Correspondence | 4 |
| Editorial Hard cider A movie about abortion and other things | 5 |
| Notebook Eye on Sudan | 6 |
| Jordan, Patrick | |
| Better to light a candle Why churches shouldn't look like conference centers. COLUMNISTS | 7 |
| Callahan, Sidney | |
| Peace in Kosovo? COLUMNISTS | 8 |
| Pfaff, William | |
| Primary lessons Back to where we started SHORT TAKE | 9 |
| McWilliams, Wilson Carey | |
| AT ONE WITH THE NATURAL WORLD Barry Lopez has brought a Catholic sensibility to his award-winning writing about sustaining the natural environment. | 11 |
| O'Connell, Nicholas | |
| The Way of Heaven POETRY | 16 |
| Jewell, Michael | |
| 'A DAY WITHOUT YESTERDAY' The priest who did the math behind the Big Bang | 18 |
| Midbon, Mark | |
| War in Heaven Discerning the spirit of computer games | 20 |
| Wren, Celia | |
| The Undiscovered Mind by John Horgan BOOKS | 22 |
| Haught, John F. | |
| Religion booknotes BOOKS | 24 |
| Cunningham, Lawrence S. | |
| Solon, spare those trees THE LAST WORD | 31 |
| Bauman, Richard |
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